Above, Harry Styles poses with his mannequin-alike in Life & Style (May 6, 2013). Below, Sean Lowe shows off his Hydroxycut bod in both OK! (May 6, 2013) and Star (May 6, 2013):
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Listen, Darling...you need help!
Hoarder Ann Miller receives a posthumous intervention.
Being ex-gay can be murder.
Anti-gay NH lawyer arrested for child porn while in court.
Kevin "Elmo" Clash's accuser says he lied about lying.
P!nk's latest acrobatic wonder.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) to Romney: "Stop digging."
Glee's Dean Geyer for Bello.
Alaskan newbie (age 23) leading longtime incumbent by 28 votes.
Chinese grandpa models tween clothes, goes viral.
When "public domain" isn't the end of the story.
Blond...James Blond: Daniel Craig with long hair.
The Beckhams' kid has a future as a cheerleader.
Forty-year-old gay-recruitment poster art.
Seventies ad: I'd like to buy the world a cock...
"Please don't leave meee"
According to Star (November 19, 2012), Pink played cupid between Queen Latifah and her estranged longtime partner Jeanette Jenkins—and the couple is back together now.
Men's retreats helped "cure" this lustful cockmonster
"Every inch of my body craved male sexual contact."—Ex-gay loon
Jimmy Savile molestation scandal crosses the Atlantic?
Romney losing ground as election nears.
Five things you don't know about Barack Obama.
How to buy Madonna's ugly-coolest outfit EVER.
P!nk interprets Madonna.
Joy Behar can't say "fuck," can't say, "cocksucker."
Octo-Grandpa said, "No, no, no!"
Charlie Sheen's crack addiction winning.
Puppet show: Gaga v. Die Antwoord.
Latinos fired up for Obama.
Lawrence Schiller's Marilyn Monroe images get a gallery show.
Don't know much about art, but know what I wanna be loved by you...
Pink talks to The Advocate about her gay fans/friends:
"They’ve been the most loyal part of what I do. They’ve been my most loyal friends, to be honest. I’ve had a lot of my gay boys around, but my gay girls are my rootstalk. They’re my honesty in an ocean of bullshit. I should be gay by the way that I look and the way that I am. I just happen to not be. But it just makes perfect and complete sense."
The (formerly) working-class girl from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, goes on to discuss the state of the economy in this turbulent election year:
"I just know that half of my family is pissed off, and we’re all working-class people. My mom is a nurse, and my dad was an insurance salesman, and my brother works for pennies for the military, and some of my family is unemployed. People are like, ‘You live in a fucking bubble, you live in Hollywood.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’ve got money now.'"
I still remember when, back in my teen-mag days, Pink first arrived on the scene. Her record label scolded us: "You're not embracing Pink." So we tried harder, but she was never a hot teen star, she was just a hot star-star, a radio favorite, an artist. All better things to be. Never dreamed a girl whose entire gimmick seemed to be pink hair would last so long and have so much in her.
Via Billboard: Quirkiest-seeming charts of all time have to be the Mainstream Top 40 song chart for 1992-2012 and its corresponding ranking of the top Mainstream Top 40 artists of the past 20 years. Apparently, the ranking is weighted in order to "ensure equitable representation," but some things that jump right out as mind-blowing:
"Another Night" by Real McCoy is the #2 song of that entire era?
Rihanna—the #1 artist of the past 20 years in this field—has no songs in the Top 10, and Kelly Clarkson is the only solo female with a song in the Top 10 ("Since U Been Gone").
In spite of Clarkson being the only female with a song in the Top 10, the Top 40 artists of the era are headed up by an entirely female Top 6
Madonna is at #10 in spite of radio's chilly feelings toward her during that era (notable exceptions including "Take a Bow" and "Music")
Janet Jackson is higher than Madonna
Lady Gaga, with only a few years under her belt, is just outside the Top 10
Pink is the #2 artist for this era
Britney Spears is #3 with only one song in the Top 40
I used to be obsessed with charts. I guess by "used to be" I mean "still am" whenever the opportunity arises!
I probably blew it by not paying more attention to Pink over the years, but I guess she felt like one of the subjects of the magazine I worked for more than a potential new fave artist for me personally. The magazine was how I first met her—and I wasn't wild about her personality. She was a total brat at a radio beach blast I covered about 10 years ago (she was NOT into an impromptu hello with the press), though was far nicer at a photo shoot I did with her a few months after that, where I got a great picture with her, managing to smile alongside her even though she'd delayed the proceedings forever by demanding we bring in someone to do her nails first.
But her song and video "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" are pretty great, and she's consistently had interesting, fun, genderfucked, feminist, well-written, aggressively performed material for a long-ass time, hasn't she?
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P!nk has released her The Truth About Love album cover. Retro-dirty. Like?
An alternate, riskier take is after the jump...
Nancy Wilson tells Us (August 23, 2010) that she's into Pink and Lady GaGa:
"There are so many bells and whistles today, but you still have to be good, and they are!"
I'm fascinated by the intersection of stars of yesteryear and stars of today. I remember a special issue of Life in the '80s showing different generations of stars interacting—Liz Taylor in the midst of her final va-va-voom re-blossoming staring into Harrison Ford's eyes—that held me transfixed. And of course I loved knowing that Madonna had met and interacted with the likes Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and Gene Kelly. Marlene Dietrich is alleged to have said of her that she "sings badly and is very vulgar, but her show is impeccable! The public never makes a mistake."
